Contents:
• Overall design
• Site management
• User management
1 Overview
2 Enrolment
3 Roles
• Course management
1 Overview
2 Assignment Module
3 Chat Module
4 Choice Module
5 Forum Module
6 Glossary Module
7 Lesson Module
8 Quiz Module
9 Resource Module
10 Survey Module
11 Wiki Module
12 Workshop Module
Overall design
• Promotes a social constructionist pedagogy
(collaboration, activities, critical reflection,etc) • Suitable for 100% online
classes as well as supplementing face-to-face learning
• Simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, low-tech browser interface
• Requires only one database (and can share it).
• Full database abstraction supports all major brands of database (except for
initial table
definition)
• Course listing shows descriptions for every course on the server, including
accessibility to
guests.
• Courses can be categorized and searched - one LMS/LCMS site can support
thousands of
courses
• Emphasis on strong security throughout. Forms are all checked, data validated,
cookies
encrypted etc
• Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings etc) can be edited using an
embedded
WYSIWYG HTML editor
• Managing the seating Arrangement
Site management
• Site is managed by an admin user, defined during setup
• Plug-in "themes" allow the administrator to customize the site colors, fonts,
layout etc to
suit local needs
• Plug-in activity modules can be added to existing LMS/LCMS applications
• Plug-in language packs allow full localization to any language. These can be
edited using a
built-in web-based editor. Can support up to 70 languages.
User management
• Goals are to reduce admin involvement to a minimum,
while retaining high security
• Supports a range of authentication mechanisms through plug-in authentication
modules,
allowing easy integration with existing systems.
• Standard email method: students can create their own login accounts. Email
addresses are
verified by confirmation.
• LDAP method: account logins can be checked against an LDAP server. Admin can
specify
which fields to use.
• IMAP, POP3, and NNTP: account logins are checked against a mail or news
server. SSL,
certificates and TLS are supported.
• Students are encouraged to build an online profile including photos,
description. Email
addresses can be protected from display if required.
• Every user can specify their own time zone, and every date in E-Learning
Application is
translated to that time zone (e.g. posting dates, assignment due dates
etc)
• Every user can choose the language used for the E-Learning Application
interface (English,
French, German, Spanish, Portuguese etc)
Course management
• A full teacher has full control over all settings for a
course, including restricting other
teachers
• Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focused
social format
• Course Themes. A course can have its own theme of colors and layout.
• Flexible array of course activities - Forums, Quizzes, Glossaries, Resources,
Choices,
Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops
• Groups - teacher(s) and students can be placed in one or more groups
• Recent changes to the course since the last login can be displayed on the
course home
page - helps give sense of community
• Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings etc) can be edited using an
embedded
WYSIWYG HTML editor
• All grades for Forums, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page (and
downloaded as a spreadsheet file)
• Full user logging and tracking - activity reports for each student are
available with graphs
and details about each module (last access, number of times read) as
well as a detailed
"story" of each student’s involvement including postings etc on one
page.
• Mail integration - copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed
in HTML or
plain text.
• Custom scales - teachers can define their own scales to be used for grading
forums and
assignments
• Courses can be packaged as a single zip file using the Backup function. These
can be
restored on any LMS/ LCMS server.
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